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Last Update: Saturday, May 1, 2021 - 23:37
A couple of days ago I drove 4 miles to Brae and then walked across the island to Druim an Aonaich, perhaps my favourite place on Raasay.
There were plenty of orchids in flower: Coeloglossum viride (...
I had planned another Hawkweeed expedition today as even at 9 am this morning XC Weather showed no rain all day. So far (13.30) it has rained all day, quite heavily at times. I will try again in a...
Following up on an article in the recent issue of The Highland Naturalist concerning inter alia the Lime Aphid, Eucallipterus tiliae, I went to look at the Lime (Tilia x europaea) trees in Raasay...
I drove less than three miles to Fearns and walked to Hallaig a few days ago. It felt strange that the season had got so far on without me. I collected seven Hieracium (Hawkweed) specimens for expert...
A return to the elms on the nearby Arish Burn meant that I found this fig gall on the Wych Elm caused by the aphid Tetraneura ulmi:
Tetraneura ulmi on Ulmus glabra
It turns out that Seth found this...
Yesterday started with my finding a bug in the bathroom with a distinctly roseate body.
Bathroom Bug
More of this later. Then Rosemary picked some Broom from the garden and brought it indoors, at...
Every year the leaves of our turnip seedlings have large numbers of small holes. However, the plants grow through this crisis and produce a glut of turnips.
Turnip damage
This year I have found the...
This hemipteran was on the outside wall of the house a few days ago. It belongs in the genus Cixia but I was told that as it is a female, I should let it go and wait for a male to turn up before...
I had omitted Plantago lanceolata (Ribwort Plantain) and Ranunculus repens (Creeping Buttercup) from my list of weeds flowering in the garden. Both have been flowering for some time, but now I can...
It is not the peak time for fungal fruiting bodies but this one has appeared in the veggie bed. Chris tells me it is Tubaria furfuracea, commonly known as the scurfy twiglet.
Scurfy Twiglet
The...
